Photoelectrochemical nitrate reduction to ammonia on CuFeO2 photocathodes modified with metallic cocatalysts
Mohamed El Idrissi, Anastasiia Kotova, Ying Kong, Muhammad Adib Abdillah Mahbub, Mohammed Abd-Lefdil, Lahoucine Atourki, Bastian Timo Mei · 2026
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Mohamed El Idrissi and six colleagues test a light driven route to make ammonia from nitrate waste. Ammonia feeds farms and may serve as a fuel, yet the factory method burns much gas. Their device uses a copper iron oxide plate that catches light and drives the change, cleaning nitrate from water at the same time. Plain plates made no liquid product, so the team screened added metal helpers.
Platinum proved best, and tuning how it was fixed to the plate gave a yield of 92 percent toward ammonia at low voltage. Metal coating also formed a surface layer that slowed plate decay, though long term stability still fell short. El Idrissi and the team call the plates a viable path to solar ammonia.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Mohamed El Idrissi, Anastasiia Kotova, Ying Kong, Muhammad Adib Abdillah Mahbub, Mohammed Abd-Lefdil, Lahoucine Atourki, Bastian Timo Mei |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 48 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |